Improvement in sad-irons



N. FEIUIS, PHOTO-LITHOBRAPNL WASHINGTON n C UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIGE.

ELISHA T. OOLBURN, OF BOSTON, HASSAOHSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN SAD-IRONS.

Specification forming part oi" Letters Patent No. 58,070, dated September 1S, 1866.

To all whom fit may concern Be it known that I, ELIsHA T. COLBURN, of

. Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have made a new and useful invention having reference to Sad-Irons; and l do hereby declare the same to be fully described in the following specilication and represented in the accompanying drawings, ot' which- Figure l is a top view, Fig. 2 a side elevation, and Figs. 3 and 4 are end views, of a sad-iron provided with my invention.

In carrying out the said invention I apply to the handle A of the sad-iron B a heat-reflecting guard, O, its purpose being to protect the hand of a person, while grasping' the handle, from heat which may arise from the body ofthe sad-iron while it maybe in use, and also to reflect back upon the said body such heat so radiated from it. For this purpose I nia-lie the said guard in two halves or plates, a a, each being formed as represented, and furnished with a reliecting under surface, and also with two standards, b Z), and two legs, ce, extended from it, the standards being elevated upon and the legs being projected downward from it. Furthermore, each portion c is notched, as shown at d d in Fig. 5, which is a top view of the guard as it appears when separated from the sad-iron.

The two standards of each portion c are hinged. or jointed to those of the 'other portion, as shown at i i, in order that when the two portions a a are drawn apart there may be a space between them sutticient to enable them to be either drawn oft' the handle or applied thereto, as circumstances may require.

When the guard is on the handle the legs rest on the top of the body of' the sad-iron and support the guard above it, so as to en able the air to circulate between the body and the guard.

I claim- The heatreflecting guard O, made suhstantially as described, so as to be applied to the sad-iron in manner and for the purpose specified, such guard being composed of the plates a a., the standards b b, and the legs c c, and having the notches d d formed in the parts a a, as explained.

E. T. OOLBURN.

Witnesses:

1t. H. EDDY, F. P. HALE, Jr. 

